Department of History [email protected] Stony Brook University ERIC ZOLOV, PH.D. Associate Professor Stony Brook University EDUCATION University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Degree: Ph.D., Latin American History August 1995 Ph.D. thesis: "Containing the Rock Gesture: Mass Culture and Hegemony in Mexico, 1955-1975" Thesis Committee: John Coatsworth, Friedrich Katz, Michael Geyer, Leora Auslander University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Degrees: M.A., International Relations; M.A., Latin American Studies June 1990 MA thesis: "Francisco Madero and Jacobo Arbenz: Comparative Subversion in Historical Perspective" Colby College, Waterville, ME June 1987 Degree: B.A., History; Phi Beta Kappa TEACHING & INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile Fall 2019 Fulbright Visiting Scholar State University of New York, Stony Brook 2011-present Associate Professor of Latin American History Directory of Latin American & Caribbean Studies 2016-2019 New York University, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies 2010-2011 Visiting Scholar Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 2004-2011 Associate Professor of Latin American History Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 1998-2004 Assistant Professor of Latin American History Georgetown University, Washington, DC 1997-98 Visiting Assistant Professor in Latin American History University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA January-June 1997 Visiting Assistant Professor in Latin American History University of California at Davis, Davis, CA. January-June 1996 Visiting Assistant Professor in Latin American History Bentley College, Waltham, MA Fall 1995 Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History Universidad de las Américas, Mexico City, Mexico 1993-1994 Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations TEACHING RESIDENCIES Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile Fall 2019 Fulbright Visiting Scholar, "Los Sesentas Globales" (graduate course) Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico January 2013 Four-day seminar, “México en los años sesenta: Guerra fría y rebelión cultural” Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), Mexico City October 2011 Five-day seminar, “Política y Cultura en México Durante la Guerra Fría” DISSERTATION COMMITTEES (Defended; * = advisor) *David Yee, “The Marginal Majority: Housing in the Mexican Metropolis, 1940-1985” (Stony Brook 2 University, 2019) *Ashley Black, “The Politics of Asylum: Cold War Revolutionaries, Human Rights, and Mexican Foreign Policy, 1944–1961” (Stony Brook University, 2018) Andrew Ehrinpreis, “Coca Nation: The Protean Politics of the Coca Leaf in Bolivia, 1900-1962" (Stony Brook University, 2018) Andrés Estefane-Jaramillo, “Elusive Numbers: State Knowledge and Bureaucratic Organization in Chile (1750-1911)" (Stony Brook University, 2017) Luis Herrán Ávila, “Anticommunism, the Extreme Right, and the Politics of Enmity in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, 1946-1972” (The New School for Social Research, 2016) Mark Rice, “Selling Sacred Cities: Tourism, Region, and Nation in Cusco, Peru” (Stony Brook University, 2014) Chelsea Schieder, "Ruination of the Nation by Coeds: The Female Student as Political Subject in the Japanese New Left, 1960-1972" (Columbia University, 2014) Matthew Scalena, "Illicit Nation: Panamanian State Formation, U.S. Imperialism, and Illegality on the Isthmus of Panama" (Stony Brook University, 2013) John Brian Freeman, “Transnational Mechanics: Automobility in Mexico, 1895-1950” (City of New York, Graduate Center, 2012) Melixa Abad-Izquierdo, “The Production of telenovelas and the Consolidation of Television in Mexico, 1950-1980” (Stony Brook University, 2011) Laura Isabel Serna, “‘We're Going Yankee’: American Movies, Mexican Nationalism, Transnational Cinema, 1917-1935” (Harvard University, 2006) DISSERTATION COMMITTEES (Current) [*=advisor] Ximena López Carrillo, "Chicano Psychology: Race, Scientific Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge, 1969-1986" (Stony Brook University) Maria Clara Torres, “The Roots of an Illicit Peasant Crop: Coca in Colombia, 1950–2010” (Stony Brook University) *Emmanuel Pardo, “Valentino's Kiss: Cinema and Political Culture in Argentina, 1895–1935” (Stony Brook University) *William Demarest, “Consumerism, Architecture, and Middle-Class Culture in Medellín, Colombia, 1945–1980” (Stony Brook University) Gonzalo Romero Sommer, “Electrifying Peru: The State, Infrastructural Power and the Geography of Modernity” (Stony Brook University) *Zinnia Capó, “Between ‘Disgusting Vices’ and ‘Family Sustenance’: Experiencing Changes in Drug Control on the Baja California Border” (Stony Brook University) Matthew Ford, “Transforming the Internal Colony: Race and State Formation on the Ecuadorian Frontier” (Stony Brook University) *Matías Hermosilla, “Political Caricature in the Chilean Global Sixties” (Stony Brook University) Gerardo Gutiérrez Pliego, “Las contraculturas en Oaxaca: Prácticas y representaciones sociales: 1962-1982” (Colegio de San Luis, Mexico) Martín Humberto González Romero, “Política, cultura y revolución sexual en el México de la Guerra Fría, 1961-1988” (Colegio de México, Mexico). Héctor Bravo, “Avándaro: La contracultural mexicana” (Colegio de México, Mexico). GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fall 2019 Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile Faculty Research Fellowship in Arts, Humanities & Lettered Social Sciences 2017-2018 Course reduction to allow for writing of book manuscript FAHSS Grant, Stony Brook University Summer 2015 "The Last Good Neighbor" (Funding for archival research in Mexico) 3 Mellon Foundation, New Directions in Scholarly Research 2005-2006 “Mexico in the Era of the Cuban Revolution: Internationalizing My Research through Incorporation of a European Perspective” National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Fellowship Summer 2005 “The Mexican ‘Miracle’ in the Era of the Cuban Revolution” Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study & Conference Center Summer 2002 “Rockin’ Las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock Music in Latin America” Two-week stay to work on an edited volume of essays on rock music cultures in the Americas Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship 2001-2002 "Miracle of Miracles?: Examining a Critical Juncture in Mexico's Post-Revolutionary History, 1958-1963" National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship 2001-2002 "Miracle of Miracles?: Examining a Critical Juncture in Mexico's Post-Revolutionary History, 1958-1963" U.S.I.A.-Fulbright Fellowship 1992-1993 Fellowship for ten months doctoral research in Mexico Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship Summer 1992 Summer grant for pre-doctoral research PUBLICATIONS BOOKS The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (Duke University Press, 2020) Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). Spanish translation: Rebeldes con causa: La contracultural mexicana y la crisis del estado patriarcal (Mexico: Editorial Norma, 2002). EDITED COLLECTIONS Iconic Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Zócalo, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2015). CO-EDITED COLLECTIONS Deborah Pacini-Hernandez, Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, and Eric Zolov, eds. Rockin’ Las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). Gilbert Joseph, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov, eds. Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940 (Duke University Press, 2001). Robert Holden and Eric Zolov, eds. Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000; second ed., 2011). JOURNAL ARTICLES “La Tricontinental y el mensaje del Che Guevara: Encrucijadas de una nueva izquierda,” Palimpsesto 9:6 (Jan.-June 2016): 1-13 [Chile]. “Introduction: Latin America in the Global Sixties,” Introduction to “Special Issue: Latin America in the Global Sixties,” The Americas 70:3 (January 2014): 349-62. Special Issue Editor. “La juventud se impone: Rebelión cultural y los temores de los mayores en México 1968,” De/Rota 1:2 (2009): 1-7 [Chile]. “Expanding our Conceptual Horizons: The Shift from an Old to a New Left in Latin America,” Special issue on Marxism in Latin America, A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 5:2 (Winter 2008): 47-73. Spanish translation, “Expandiendo nuestros horizontes conceptuales: el pasaje de una ‘vieja’ a una ‘nueva izquierda’ en América Latina en los años sesenta,” Aletheia 2:4 (July 2012) [Argentina]. “The Graphic Satire of Mexico’s Jorge Carreño and the Politics of Presidentialism During the 1960s,” 4 Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 17:1 (2006): 13-38 [Israel]. “Showcasing the ‘Land of Tomorrow’: Mexico and the 1968 Olympics,” The Americas 61:2 (October 2004): 159-88. “Toward an Analytical Framework for Assessing the Impact of the 1968 Student Movement on U.S.-Mexican Relations, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 9:2 (December 2003): 41-68. “Rebeldismo in the Revolutionary Family: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Early Confrontations with State and Society in Mexico,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 6:2 (November 1997): 201-16. CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS (* = refereed) *“Non-Alignment and Student Protest in 1968 Mexico” in A. James McAdams and Anthony Monta, eds., 1968 in Europe and Latin America (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020). "La cambiante percepción de los medios noticiosos estadounidenses durante el Movimiento estudiantil